Celestial Cartography
We scan wedding and event venues with a LiDAR camera. You get a photoreal walkthrough couples can explore from anywhere — and a floor plan of your rooms accurate enough to lay a whole reception out in.
No venue has been scanned yet. That is exactly why the first ones are worth being.
Read this before the rest of the page.
No venue has been scanned yet. There is no portfolio on this page, no example tour and no customer to ring, because there is not one to give you. The scanning is opening now, with a small founding group of venues.
The other half is not a plan. The planner couples lay a room out in — in 2D with real dimensions, and in 3D you can walk through — is live and free today, and you can open it in the next minute without talking to anybody. Every claim below is labelled Built or Opening so you can tell which one you are reading.
Who this is for
The capture is the same LiDAR scan every time. What it is worth, and what it is worth next to, is not — so each market has its own page rather than one page that tries to sell a ballroom and a three-bedroom listing in the same breath.
Nothing has been scanned in any of the three. The rest of this page is written to venues, which is the market this was built for first.
A walkthrough of your actual rooms that a couple moves through in a browser — no app, no download, no headset. The ballroom as it stands, not as it photographed on one good afternoon in June.
Opening
A link you can paste into an enquiry reply, and an embed for your own website and your listing profiles. You are not handed a file and left to work out what to do with it.
Opening
A LiDAR capture records the geometry of the room as it is, so the dimensions come off the building rather than off a floor plan drawn before the wall came out.
Opening
The ballroom, the ceremony site, the getting-ready suites, the covered patio. Additional spaces captured on the same visit cost less than the first, because the travel and the setup are already paid for.
Opening
The second half
A 3D tour is a look around. It is a good look around — and then the couple closes it, opens a spreadsheet, and goes back to guessing whether their twelve-person head table fits in front of your window.
The reason this is worth doing here is what waits on the other side of the scan: a planner they are already using, which can take your room as a room rather than as a picture of one.
The Celestial planner has a layout builder that works in real room dimensions in feet: tables added, dragged, and sized by the corner, with guests seated from the couple’s own list.
It also has a 3D walkthrough with 44 parametric props — linens by colour, candles, chairs, the dance floor, the bar, the arch — so a couple can stand inside their own layout and look at it. That is live in the app now, and the planner is free.
Built — open the planner and look at it yourself.
Your venue’s measured geometry becomes the room the couple starts in — right size, right shape, the pillars where the pillars are. Nobody is typing your dimensions in off a PDF and hoping.
So a couple who has never stood in your building can lay out their reception in it, seat their families, and walk the room, months before they sign anything.
Opening — this join is what the scanning service is being built to make. No venue is in the planner yet.
Why it sells dates
A tour does not need a Saturday, a member of staff, or a couple who can afford to fly in twice. It is open at eleven at night, when the two of them are actually sitting down together with a laptop — which, if you have ever tried to book a showing around two work schedules, is most of the problem.
It also answers the questions that eat a walkthrough before it happens. Where does a head table for twelve actually go. Does the ceiling take draping. Is the bar in the room or down a corridor. A couple who arrives having already laid their wedding out in your ballroom is not coming to find out whether it fits.
And the enquiry you lose most often is the one you never hear about: the out-of-town couple who shortlisted four venues, could only visit two, and quietly dropped the ones they could not see.
That is an argument, not a measurement. We have no booking figures to quote you, because we have no venues yet — and a percentage borrowed from somebody else’s marketing would not be about your building anyway.
Pricing
A one-off capture fee, banded by the size of the space. A chapel and a 400-cover ballroom are not the same day’s work, and pricing them as if they were means one of you is being overcharged.
Priced lower per space than the first. Adding your ceremony lawn and two suites to a visit that is already happening costs a fraction of bringing the camera back out for them.
A monthly fee per venue that keeps the tour online, embedded on your site and connected to the planner. Not a subscription you need in order to keep the scan — one that keeps it working where you use it.
There is no figure on this page yet, and that is deliberate. These bands have never been quoted to a real venue. Printing a number now would mean printing a guess, and the first venue quoted something different would rightly hold this page against us.
So you get a written quote against your own spaces — square footage, how many rooms, how far the drive is — before anybody books a date. Founding venues keep the rate they are quoted for as long as their hosting stays active.
Founding venues
There is a real trade here and it is worth stating plainly. You would be booking a service with no portfolio, from somebody who has scanned no venues. In exchange, the first venues get a founding rate held for the life of their hosting, and their rooms are the ones couples find in the planner while there is nothing else in it.
If that is not a trade you want to make, the honest advice is to wait until there are tours on this page to look at — and there will be.
Celestial Cartography is run by Celestial Celebrations LLC in St. Louis, Missouri, alongside Celestial Collective, the planning software the scans feed. The first scans will be within driving distance of St. Louis.
Enquire
Email goes to a person — the owner — not to a queue. It helps to include your venue name and city, roughly how many spaces you would want captured, the approximate square footage of the largest one, and a link to your website.
The planner is the half you can check before you reply to anything. Open it, build a room, walk it.
If you are planning a wedding
The planner is free, and you do not need a scanned venue to use it: type in the room’s dimensions, lay out your tables, seat your guest list and walk the result in 3D. Guest list, budget, checklist, seating and a wedding website with RSVPs come with it — no ads, and nobody paying to be recommended to you.
When a venue you are looking at has been captured, its room arrives already the right size and shape. That is a bonus, not a requirement.